Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castle
Knockantota South, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockantota South
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (Site of) (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.03162, -8.61705
- SMR number
- CO051-022----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In level pasture; no visible surface trace of castle apparently built by MacCarthys (Healy 1988, 67); marked 'site of' on 1842 OS 6-inch map.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.